The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-28
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

We use 1,000,0O0,000 tin cans in this
country every year.
Many OF the best dressed women in
New York have discarded the hustle
a Montreal youth twenty-one years.
old is serving his fifteenth term in
prison.
General Drum thinks bet ter cook
ing in the army would prevent deser-
tions.
Cheese cake and sweet potato pie
are said to be exclusively Philadel-
phia notions.
The daily flow of q natural gas well
at Xenia, Ind, is estimated at 4,0OO,-
600 cubic feet.
For only about an hour at night
are the streets of New York entirely
quiet and deserted.
The Astor family of New York
boast that they have never been
robbed of a single penny.
Eight dollars per month is the low
est pension paid to old soldiers in the
united Otates.
The marriage fees of some New
York clergymen are said to amount
to more than their salaries.
The savings banks contain more
than one million dollars, the owners
Of which are unknown.
An estimate is made that the immi-
grafton to the United States during
the current year will include $4,000
Russians.
The dense forests Of West Virginia
are rapidly disappearing, and soon the
streams will be shrinking in volume
and number.
Sir John Lubbock, in q lecture on
"Savages," says that the negroes nev-
er kissed until they were taught by
the white people.
In 1900 there were in all the United
States only six cities of over six thou
sand inhabitants. In 1880 there we're
2S6, and by this time many more.
1t is estimated that discoveries, in
ventions and compounds patented
each year in the United States and
never amounting to anything, cost
S3,000,000
Scandinavians are few in New En-
gland, but there are about 100000
in the entire country, some 10000 in
Chicago alone, where they cast 10000
votes.
Smart rascals now manufacture
blood oranges of common white ones
by injecting sweetened aniline dye
and thus increase the number of dec
GRATED interiors.
At Harrisburg, Penn, visiting
tramps are set to work sweeping the
streets at night. They complain that
the work is unhealthful and will pat
ronize some other place.
For 81 a person can telephone from
Boston to New York and have five
minutes to do it in. Just about time
enough to say "Helloi / can't hear q
word you say"
The longest street railway in the
country is now in operation between
Elizabeth and Newark, n. j., the
round trip being nearly thirty miles,
for which the fare is 20 cents.
The general average Of the human
pulse, though the exceptions are nu-
merous, may be pnt at birth at 40;
two years, 100; from sixteen to nine
teen, so; at manhood, 76, and old age,
60.
Only three silver dollars of the
coinage of 1904 are supposed to be III
and two of these are locat.
ed. The whereabout of the third Is
unknown. Its numismatie value Is
$500.
or 173600 Indians in the United !
States under agency supervision ouly
$1,000 wear citizens clothes, and only |
about $4,000 can speak English with |
sufficient intelligence for ordinary |
conversation.
Matches are so cheap now that in
the principal New York cigar stores
when a customer asks for a match |
he gets a box. Very good matches
of the Swedish kind cost less than
half a cent box.